The Progress., 1887-12-17

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/ William j. Armstrong, in the employ Of
the National Bureau of Labor Statistics, es-
| Inmates that thirteen thousand divorces .
have been granted in the State in the past
twenty years. Among the causes assigned
for the divorces desertion is the most prom
nent Following this in the order given ii
cruelty, habitual drunkenness and inf
deity.
MICHIGAN.
Emily Smith, aged seventy two years. has
been sentenced to three months imprison-
ment in Detroit for robbing little girls Of
/ their dolls.
! The new Detroit Crematorium has begun
operations. The body of Mrs Barbara
Schoor, of Millersburg, O., was the first one
/ reated
Malignant diphtheria has broken out in
the orphan asylum connected with st Jo-s
seph's Convent at Marquette.
During the season just ended the Duluth,
South Shore & Atlantic shipped from Mar
quette Sc, ,O91 tons of ore to local furnaces:
Lake shipments from Lake Superior m he,
are now ended, the total shipments being
4. 1896, ,335 tons, an increase over last yeal
Of 9O3, ,449 tons
G. G.. Whitney & Co. IS cracker bakery il
Bay City was burned few days ago. Loss
$l3, 900; insurance, $5, 600.
| A steady flow of natural gas was obtained
the other day, at a depth of one hundred
feet, on the land owned by D. l. Campbell,
seven miles north of Detroit
Mine officials report the Calumet Heel,
fire at last under complete control
Some Genesee County farmers are pre-.
dieting that wheat wilt be one dollar per
bushel before another harvest
4 broom factory is one of the recent adj
ditions to Traverse Gity's manufacturing
industries .-s-
At the Cleveland iron mine, near Ishpem-
ing, Fred Dash was crushed beneath fall
ing mass of rock and killed few days ago.
Jacob Johnston, well-to-do farmer of
Brandon township Oakland County. was
found dead the other morning under load
of lumber.
William Splinter pleaded guilty in Bay
City the other day to incest with his daugh-
ter Amelia, aged sixteen years
Eugene NJ. Converse, Battle Creek law
yer, has pleaded guilty to embezzlement.
Charles Matthewsons barn, near Ravenna,
containing hay, grain, farming implements,
Six COWS and two horses, was burned the
other morning: Loss, So, 600 '~"
. Over five hundred barrels of flour con-
cealel in the brush on Bois Blanc Island
were found by the United States Marshal the
other day. who went there for the purpose
OF recovering all floating property picked up
from the wrecked steamer Albany.
MINNESOTA
Special Agent Iightner, who has been at
the Sissetcn Agency since August, has COM
pleted the work OF allotting lands in sew
crafty to Indians of that reserve
The Sleeping car companies have always
seen to it that the traveller who happens to
| be alone in section when he has paid for
the lower berth only shall gain as little as
possible by his good fortune The upper
berth must be let down in order to prevent
him from getting more than the worth of
his money, though it makes not the slight
est difference to the company or its en-
ployes. The State Railway Commission has
addressed circular to railroad managers in
the State poinsing out the absurdity of this
practice and calling for its abolition.
A daughter OF Henry Kendall, of Roches-
Ter. seven years otd, while running in
field recently struck a barbed-w1re fence.
the barb penetrating her forehead and kill
ing her.
The hosiery mill of l. E. Keatly, at Con-
nersville, was closed few days ago. Mr..
Keatly making an assignment Liabilities
$4,000. with assets aggregating Similar
sum.
Israel Ryder, an old Indian trader on the
| Upper Reseau river, was shot the other
night by Charles Copnass, an Indian
marauder from the Canadian side
Matthias Hauer shot and killed his wife a
few days ago at St Paul, but claimed it was
accidental.
| Ihe report OF the committee appointed to
investigate the charges against ex-Warden
Reed, of the Saltwater penitentiary. wholly
exonerates him.
Thomas Nephew accidentally shot aud
instantly killed a young man at Blueberry
the other day. Nephew said he thought the
victim was a bear.
I citizen of Fergus Falls has perfected
machine with which passenger coaches can
be heated without the use of fire, steam or
electricity, and which will not cause a fire
in case of railway accident
Lou" Murray was convicted at Buffalo
the other day Of attempting to assault Miss
Mary Sylvester, and was sentenced to ten
years at hard labor The young woman es-
capped from Murray by jumping from third
story, sustaining severe injuries
James Fitzpatrick. one of the largestland-
l
stock-raisers in Southwestern Minnesota.
made an assignment recently. His liabili-
ties were 500, 200, and his nominal assets
$35, ,OO0
s. DAKOTA.
| At o meeting in WatertOwn the other
evening $25, 600 was raised in aid OF the
project to establish q Methodist Episcopal
| College there.
| At Straubville recently Daniel McClellen
and d. J. Jones were found suffocated by
coal gas.
Governor Church has pardoned John
Lacey from the Sioux Falls Pen1tentary.
Lacey was convicted of manslaughter in
| Mitchell in 1882 and sentenced to twenty
| years.
Warrants were issued at Pierre the other
day for the arrest of twenty Indians on the
Winnebago reservation on charge Of as
| sault with deadly weapons These Indians
sold wood to the whites, received the money
| for it. and then drew their revolvers and re-
fused to let them depart with the wood